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India's first Oscar winner, Bhanu Athaiya, has died peacefully in her sleep aged 91.

 

Won for costume desugn on Gandhi.

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George Gibbs, special effects artist who won Oscars for Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom and Who Framed Roger Rabbit, reportedly dead:

Also worked on two Pink Panther movies, so I'll probably cross post there in a moment. Flash Gordon and The Meaning Of Life as well.

 

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0316672/

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Not a winner but a two time nominee, and somebody I had on my watchlist for 12 years(!) but had assumed was looong dead.

English sound engineer John Aldred (wiki) died on December 15th at the age of 99.

Notable credits include The Italian Job, Dr. Strangelove and Mary, Queen of Scots.

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Death announcement for American film editor Robert C. Jones (wiki), aged 84.

Academy Award winner for Coming Home (1978), starring Jane Fonda and Jon Voight.
3x nominee for It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) and Bound For Glory (1976).

Other credits include the terrible Gene Wilder/Richard Pryor flick See No Evil Hear No Evil, Heaven Can Wait, Love Story, Days of Thunder and Paint Your Wagon.

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On 05/02/2021 at 21:02, Ulitzer95 said:

Death announcement for American film editor Robert C. Jones (wiki), aged 84.

Academy Award winner for Coming Home (1978), starring Jane Fonda and Jon Voight.
3x nominee for It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) and Bound For Glory (1976).

Other credits include the terrible Gene Wilder/Richard Pryor flick See No Evil Hear No Evil, Heaven Can Wait, Love Story, Days of Thunder and Paint Your Wagon.

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Note that he won his Oscar for screenwriting, rather than editing (his other noms were for editing).

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Alan Robert Murray (wiki) has died aged 66. No cause given.

Holds the record for the most Oscar nominations for a sound editor... NINE! They are:

*Ladyhawke (1986)
*Lethal Weapon 2 (1990)
*Eraser (1997)
*Space Cowboys (2001)
*Letters From Iwo Jima (2007) also winner
*Flags of Our Fathers (2007)
*American Sniper (2015) also winner
*Sicario (2016)
*Sully (2017)
*Joker (2020)
 

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Leon Gast, winner for the "Rumble in the Jungle" feature documentary award for When we were Kings has died aged 85.

When We Were Kings (1996) | The Criterion Collection

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On 15/12/2020 at 14:25, YoungWillz said:

George Gibbs, special effects artist who won Oscars for Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom and Who Framed Roger Rabbit, reportedly dead:

Also worked on two Pink Panther movies, so I'll probably cross post there in a moment. Flash Gordon and The Meaning Of Life as well.

 

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0316672/


Finally some confirmation, via the Oscars website.

Interesting interview with him linked to his Wikipedia. He was a Londoner.

I contacted the Hollywood Reporter too but they weren't fucked one bit. They cover some of the most random people i.e. folk we've never heard of in advertising, talent agents etc. (some even without IMDb pages) and yet they won't do a write up for a two-time Oscar winner. Shows how insular they are.

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Gone through the A–Z list on the Oscars In Memoriam page now.

Found an Oscar winner who died completely off radar in the last year:

Ken Muggleston (wiki), Australian/British set decorator who won an award for 1968's Oliver! 

Born April 1930 so about 90 though no idea when he died...

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Jerome Hellman, who won a 1970 Oscar as a producer of 'Best Film' winner Midnight Cowboy, has died. He was 92. Hellman's repertoire was selective, as he only produced seven films total. However, aside from Midnight Cowboy, they also included the Day of the Locust and The Mosquito Coast.

 

https://variety.com/2021/film/news/jerome-hellman-dead-midnight-cowboy-1234984197/

 

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Jon Gregory (wiki), British film editor who was nominated for an Academy Award for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) dead at 77.

Also editor on Four Wedding and a Funeral (1994) and In Bruges (2008).

Hollywood Reporter obit.

Edit: Guardian QO

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German film set builder Rolf Zehetbauer has died at 92:

https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/rolf-zehetbauer-das-boot-filmarchitekt-und-oscar-preistraeger-ist-tot-a-d2200fef-a637-4bf4-a6e4-233ba13dfbb4

 

He won the Award for Cabaret in 1973, but also built for The Neverending Story and Das Boot.

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David Brenner,  co-winning editor for Born On The Fourth Of July for Best Achievement In Film Editing, reportedly dead: https://www.gofundme.com/f/in-loving-memory-of-david-brenner

 

Host of great films - Platoon, Independence Day, The Patriot, Justice League and the Avatar sequel.

 

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0107463/

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Time for a round-up of the oldest living winners and nominees. Listed below is everyone turning 95+ in 2022:

Bill Butler b. 7 Apr 1921, cinematographer (nominee – "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", 1975) DDP pick
Walter Mirisch b. 8 Nov 1921, producer (winner – "In the Heat of the Night", 1967) DDP pick
Norman Lear b. 27 Jul 1922, screenwriter (nominee – "Divorce American Style", 1967) DDP pick
Peter Berkos b. 15 Aug 1922, sound editor (winner – "The Hindenburg", 1975) not picked
Glynis Johns b. 5 Oct 1923, actress (nominee – "The Sundowners", 1960) DDP pick

Eva Marie Saint b. 4 Jul 1924, actress (winner – "On the Waterfront", 1954) DDP pick
Alan Bergman b. 11 Sep 1925, songwriter (3 wins, 13 more nominations) DDP pick
Jean-Charles Tacchella b. 23 Sep 1925, screenwriter (nominee – "Cousin Cousine", 1975) not picked
Phyllis Dalton MBE b. 16 Oct 1925, costume designer (2 wins – "Doctor Zhivago", 1965 and "Henry V", 1989, 1 more nomination) DDP pick
Dame Angela Lansbury b. 16 Oct 1925, actress (winner – honorary award, 3 more nominations) DDP pick
Lee Grant b. 31 Oct 1925, actress (winner – "Shampoo", 1975, 3 more nominations) DDP pick
Albert Brenner b. 17 Feb 1926, art director (5 nominations) not picked
Roger Corman b. 5 Apr 1926, director (winner – honorary award) DDP pick
Mel Brooks b. 28 Jun 1926, screenwriter and songwriter (winner – "The Producers", 1969, 2 more nominations) DDP pick
Norman Jewison b. 21 Jul 1926, director (winner – honorary award, 7 more nominations) DDP pick
Laurence Rosenthal b. 4 Nov 1926, composer (2 nominations) DDP pick
Lawrence Turman b. 28 Nov 1926, producer (nominee – "The Graduate", 1967) not picked
Arthur Cohn b. 4 Feb 1927, documentary producer (3 wins, 1 more nomination) DDP pick
Harry Belafonte b. 1 Mar 1927, singer-songwriter and actor (winner – honorary award) DDP pick
Rosemary Harris b. 19 Sep 1927 actress (nominee – "Tom & Viv", 1994) DDP pick
Marcel Ophuls b. 1 Nov 1927 documentary filmmaker (winner – "Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie", 1988) not picked
Estelle Parsons b. 20 Nov 1927 actress (winner – Bonnie and Clyde", 1967, 1 more nomination) DDP pick


22 names in total I believe, but correct me if I've missed anyone.

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1 hour ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Time for a round-up of the oldest living winners and nominees. Listed below is everyone turning 95+ in 2022:

Bill Butler b. 7 Apr 1921, cinematographer (nominee – "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", 1975) DDP pick
 

 

One of those quirks of DDP fate that after missing him for several years, two of us both thought "better get him back on a DDP team" in 2022!

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Guardian obit for British set decorator Ian Whitaker (Wiki), won an Oscar for Best Production Design, he was 94.

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On 21/02/2022 at 12:44, Ulitzer95 said:

Time for a round-up of the oldest living winners and nominees. Listed below is everyone turning 95+ in 2022:

Bill Butler b. 7 Apr 1921, cinematographer (nominee – "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", 1975) DDP pick
Walter Mirisch b. 8 Nov 1921, producer (winner – "In the Heat of the Night", 1967) DDP pick
Norman Lear b. 27 Jul 1922, screenwriter (nominee – "Divorce American Style", 1967) DDP pick
Peter Berkos b. 15 Aug 1922, sound editor (winner – "The Hindenburg", 1975) not picked
Glynis Johns b. 5 Oct 1923, actress (nominee – "The Sundowners", 1960) DDP pick
Eva Marie Saint b. 4 Jul 1924, actress (winner – "On the Waterfront", 1954) DDP pick
Alan Bergman b. 11 Sep 1925, songwriter (3 wins, 13 more nominations) DDP pick
Jean-Charles Tacchella b. 23 Sep 1925, screenwriter (nominee – "Cousin Cousine", 1975) not picked
Phyllis Dalton MBE b. 16 Oct 1925, costume designer (2 wins – "Doctor Zhivago", 1965 and "Henry V", 1989, 1 more nomination) DDP pick
Dame Angela Lansbury b. 16 Oct 1925, actress (winner – honorary award, 3 more nominations) DDP pick
Lee Grant b. 31 Oct 1925, actress (winner – "Shampoo", 1975, 3 more nominations) DDP pick
Albert Brenner b. 17 Feb 1926, art director (5 nominations) not picked
Roger Corman b. 5 Apr 1926, director (winner – honorary award) DDP pick
Mel Brooks b. 28 Jun 1926, screenwriter and songwriter (winner – "The Producers", 1969, 2 more nominations) DDP pick
Norman Jewison b. 21 Jul 1926, director (winner – honorary award, 7 more nominations) DDP pick
Laurence Rosenthal b. 4 Nov 1926, composer (2 nominations) DDP pick
Lawrence Turman b. 28 Nov 1926, producer (nominee – "The Graduate", 1967) not picked
Arthur Cohn b. 4 Feb 1927, documentary producer (3 wins, 1 more nomination) DDP pick
Harry Belafonte b. 1 Mar 1927, singer-songwriter and actor (winner – honorary award) DDP pick
Rosemary Harris b. 19 Sep 1927 actress (nominee – "Tom & Viv", 1994) DDP pick
Marcel Ophuls b. 1 Nov 1927 documentary filmmaker (winner – "Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie", 1988) not picked
Estelle Parsons b. 20 Nov 1927 actress (winner – Bonnie and Clyde", 1967, 1 more nomination) DDP pick


22 names in total I believe, but correct me if I've missed anyone.


Production designer and art director Albert Brenner (wikidead at 96.

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Twitter reporting the death of 2017 honourary Academy Award winner Owen Roizman at age 86. Roizman, who was a five-time Oscar nominee, was an American cinematographer whose many credits included the French Connection, the Exorcist, Network, Absence of Malice and Taps.

 

Edit: LA Times obit: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2023-01-07/owen-roizman-the-french-connection-and-the-exorcist-cinematographer-dies-at-86

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